If you’ve been diligently looking for jobs like me, then perhaps you’ve landed an interview, or two, or three. Maybe you have…
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Early Career Research Community Navigating Job Hunting: What Going through Recruitment Looks LikeRead more
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Early Career Research Community Diversity and equity in society and academia: An after-lab-hours chatRead more
This article is different since it is not about sharing my personal experience. This time I did what I should have done…
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During the COVID-19 lockdown there were an increasing number of people not abiding to the rules, and in some cases disregarding them altogether. As time…
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Academia Moving for science – from UK to Vietnam (via Singapore)Read more
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Early Career Research Community Lessons I Have Learned as a MentorRead more
I spent my adolescent years immersed in a suburban hometown teeming with engineers. They were all working tirelessly on designing omnipresent mobile…
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Early Career Research Community Eureka? How to Maximize Your Ability to Make Scientific IdeasRead more
Eureka! It’s a timeless expression. Okay, it’s cliché. But we’ve all had an, “aha!” moment. Depending on your enthusiasm and the difficulty…
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Early Career Research Community A novel approach to COVID-19: A Q&A With Charit NarayananRead more
Last month, a PLOS ONE paper was added to PLOS’ COVID-19 Collection. What makes this paper a bit more noteworthy is its author. Charit Narayanan is a…
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Early Career Research Community Planning for future job-hunting during COVID-19Read more
The COVID-19 pandemic found me at the end of my PhD, and even though my graduation plans will be delayed, I will…
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Early Career Research Community Ph.D. Job Hunting in the Era of Covid-19, A PerspectiveRead more
Congratulations! If you’ve successfully defended your Ph.D. dissertation recently, you’ve probably heard this exclamation many times throughout the last couple of months…
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Early Career Research Community Absence makes the lab grow fonder: self-schooled graduate studies in the midst of Covid-19.Read more
Frozen samples, interrupted experiments, and forgotten GANTT charts. The sweeping coronavirus pandemic has rippled through education timelines and has left students uncertain…
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Early Career Research Community The benefit of science communication and science conference organization for graduate studentsRead more
Much effort is put into framing and conceptualizing the effective discussion of science and its relationship with society. To meet the increasing…
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Early Career Research Community Undusting microscopes and warming up fingers to pipette after a monthRead more
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic a lot of ECRs have been through a lot of ups and downs juggling between rearranging bench-based experiments and…